Wan Yousheng (1917-2003), a native of Xinjian County, Jiangxi Province, was a well-known expert in traditional Chinese medicine in China, a national-level famous old Chinese medicine doctor, and one of the first batch of experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council. Wan Yousheng's theory of traditional Chinese medicine is very profound, proposing the unity of cold and temperature, and establishing the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine for external fever, which has made outstanding contributions to the modernization and development of traditional Chinese medicine.
Wan Yousheng was born into a family of Chinese medicine practitioners and businessmen, and his great-grandfather was a well-known local Chinese medicine practitioner and a well-known businessman. Therefore, the family background is relatively superior, Wan Yousheng has read poetry and books since he was a child, and began to study traditional Chinese medicine when he was a little older, and was later admitted to Jiangxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 1937, he was successful in his studies and began to respond to patients independently. Due to his superb medical skills and ancestral learning, he soon became famous in the local area.
Wan Yousheng admired Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and Wu Jutong's "Differentiation of Warm Diseases" in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and was proficient in the "Neijing" and "Difficult Classics", and was also proficient in the theories of various schools of cold and Wen in the past dynasties. However, Wan Yousheng has no view of the door, he believes that whether it is the typhoid school or the warm disease school, they are both sides of the same body of traditional Chinese medicine, the same origin of the department, and the unity of cold and temperature in theory. At the same time, he believes that the development of Chinese medicine should absorb the strengths of modern science, use them for our own use, and constantly innovate in order to make greater progress and benefit human society.
Wan Lao has presided over the teaching of Jiangxi Provincial College of Traditional Chinese Medicine for more than 30 years, and has long served as the teaching task of two courses of typhoid fever and warm disease, and actively insisted on promoting the unification of cold and temperature. Although "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" focuses on typhoid fever, it also discusses temperature disease, but typhoid fever is detailed and temperature disease is omitted. Later, some people put the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" against the theory of warm disease, but this is actually incorrect. Because in the final analysis, the theory of warm disease was developed on the basis of the theory of typhoid fever, and they are not only not opposites, but are one.
Wan Yousheng emphasized that the combination of cold and temperature has become an inevitable trend in the development of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is also the common aspiration of the vast majority of Chinese medicine scholars. During his tenure as the director of the Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wan Lao has been focusing on breaking through the theory of fever in the unity of cold and temperature, and established the first fever research laboratory in the country. He believes that fever is a general term for typhoid fever and warm disease, and both are the unity of external infection and internal injury and disease.
Through more than 7 years of clinical practice, he has summarized more than 10,000 cases, written dozens of high-quality academic papers, and trained three graduate students in fever, which not only confirmed the correctness of the theory of fever, but also put forward a complete theoretical system and clinical effective programs from theory to clinical in an all-round way.
Wan Lao applied this theoretical system to clinical practice, and achieved very significant curative effects, and many incurable diseases became easier. For example, acute onset of chronic tonsillitis. It is a relatively difficult disease to cure and can only be controlled. However, by applying the theory of fever, a complete cure can be achieved.
On one occasion, he saw a 38-year-old patient with an acute attack of chronic tonsillitis. Since the age of 1, the patient had a fever about once a month, accompanied by a sore throat, and took a lot of traditional Chinese medicine, but did not completely cut off the roots. Later, every time I had an attack, I was hospitalized for infusion, anti-inflammatory, and I could only recover briefly. Later, all anti-inflammatory drugs were ineffective. This time, the symptoms were more severe, with a high fever all over the body, and swollen tonsils and pus in the throat. At the same time, it is accompanied by symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, stomach heat, and dry stools.
After careful diagnosis, Wan Lao believed that this was cold and warm, and warm and cold, and that it could be treated with the theory of fever, so he prescribed 3 doses of traditional Chinese medicine. After taking the medicine, the patient felt that the symptoms were reduced, and after taking 7 more doses, the symptoms disappeared.
Wan Lao has written three books, including "Typhoid Fever Knowledge", "Theory of the Unification of Cold and Temperature" and "Fever".
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